[STEAM] Fallout: London devs will “downgrade” Fallout 4 to save their massive mod

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Fallout: London as it looked back in December, when its planned April 23 release was announced.

After years of work, the third-party modders at Team Folon

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that their long-awaited (and

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) "DLC-sized" unofficial fan mod,

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, is now in "QA testing" and awaiting the "final green light" from release partner GOG. But that release will apparently need to make use of a "downgrader" to work around a recent Bethesda "next-gen" update that upended all of the team's modding efforts.

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, Team Folon announced that its work on the Fallout: London mod would culminate in a planned April 23 release, lining up with

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. Then, just weeks before the planned launch, Bethesda

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that its own planned "next-gen" update for

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would be coming out on April 25, two days after Fallout: London's launch target.

"That has, for lack of a better term, screwed us over," Team Folon Project Manager Dean Carter

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shortly after Bethesda's upgrade announcement. In

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, Carter said that the next-gen update "requires many of our internal systems to be updated," since the content they created in the

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likely wouldn't work under the updated code. That turned out to be a valid concern, as the next-gen update

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after its release.

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